well, we all get along. and kay and, you know, you knew they were best friends, cause they were cutting up on each other. and then they would also tell stories about their sons baseball, especially during the baseball seasons, cause they were best friends, the sons. reporter: kay and becky even joined weight watchers together. and the two of them were pretty competitive at the weight watcher thing, huh? yes, yes. reporter: who s up a pound, who s down a pound? yes. every day. reporter: and one day in march, 2009, began like any other. kay, the little league mom, got up to take derek to school, and becky, the mother of five, left her house a few minutes later to drop off her kids before her work day began. all very routine. until 8:30 a.m., when contractor mitch cozart showed up to do some maintenance work on kay s back door. you re coming around the corner. you lift up the latch gate. and tell me what you see. when i walked back into the into where the back door was,
i was able to talk to him on the phone, let him know he needed to come back here as quick as possible. so how did he take that news? he was he was pretty devastated. i tried not to tell him on the phone. i tried to tell him, you know, i need you need to come back. there s been an accident, you know? but he he guessed pretty much what was going on. reporter: kay s husband david booked a flight home, as investigators turned their attention to the house next door. that s where kay s friend becky the mother with five kids lived. could there be another victim there? the point of entry we could see was the backdoor also there, and we found spots of blood on the back door. reporter: inside, becky s place was ransacked, but, quick relief, as they looked around there were no new victims. the blood smears they d noted appeared to be from the crime scene next door. that means you have somebody that is brave enough, or just or just cruel enough to just just beat this woman
the scene and met up with her older son michael. they re both there, so your mother and christopher are there? yeah, they pulled up together at the same time, with columbia county officer. we all walk around back to kay s house, and my mom, she sounds very distraught. she s she s screamin kay s name. she shows up at her house while you were all in the backyard there? right. they show up on scene and and they re, wondering what s going on, and they re they re pretty pretty shaken up. reporter: everyone else in becky s family was accounted for, her husband tony, a long haul trucker, was away on the road, her three younger children were fine at school and day care. the investigator said becky s focus then turned to kay. understandably she was upset. you know, she didn t know what happened to her neighbor. she just knew her neighbor had had left in an ambulance. reporter: and in fact, edmunds says, becky was less concerned about that burglary in her own home and mo
friend of becky who also lived nearby. her sister drove becky to the hospital. she got to the hospital, you know, she was demanding to get to see her friend. she go to bedside for kay, huh? yeah, she wanted to get there. i said, what hospital did they go to? reporter: news of the attack quickly spread to another close friend of kay s, suzanne frazier. i hung up the phone and i was shakin , and so, i called my boss and i said, i gotta go, i gotta go. and i left. broke some broke some laws, huh? i ran red lights, i flew. i mean, i just went. reporter: tamara rushed to the hospital too. did you get to her bedside or no. be able to take no. a look in? i did not. i i just stayed in the waiting room. there were a whole lotta other people in the waiting room. but the prognosis was very bad, wasn t it? machines were yeah. keeping her alive at that point even, huh? yes. reporter: the friends all kept an edgy vigil for news about kay s con
reporter: friends and family gathered at the hospital keeping a vigil for kay parsons, a suburban mom who d been brutally beaten that morning in a home invasion. and while her next-door neighbor becky s home had been burglarized too, becky didn t seem to care as much about that. good friend tamara says that for becky, it was all about getting to see kay. she continues to ask if well, can we go in and see her? can we go in and see her? they tell us no. reporter: eventually, one of kay s closest friends suzanne frazier did get back to her bedside. could you recognize her if you didn t know that it was her? not really, not really. all puffed up? very very face was very full. head wrapped. so i asked the nurse, said, is she brain dead? and she didn t answer me. reporter: kay was just clinging to life, some wrenching decisions had to be made. and doctors were waiting for guidance from her husband david, who arrived back from a business trip in california. how did d